London Nightlife 1983 - Colin Faver on Camden Palace and Heaven
From the Face magazine, February 1983, as part of an overview of the soundtrack to London nightlife at that point, an interview with the late Colin Faver 'One of the C amden Palace's four DJs who also plays Cha-Cha, the one nighter that provides a pansexual sideshow to Heaven's straight night each Tuesday'. "The Palace on Saturdays is definitely the most upfront disco in England. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays educational, 50-50 disco and electro pop; Thursday sticks to the no-funk groove; so on Saturdays we mix in funk and disco funk. A lot of bands that have come out of the Palace initially as cult groups are now soft pop, like ABC, Culture Club. George proudly brought his first single to us and a whole new dancestyle developed from the girls in the Culture Club outfits, probably because they're so hard to dance in. But the reaction has been a return to heavier underground sounds: Iggy, T heatre of Hate, Lou Reed, Passenger. A lot of people don't li...